poignant. devastating. i love the bookend of being to fight for yourself outside but not at home. a lot of feelings here. really impressive to be able to film this. truly inspiring. 100% made me cry in class. i would love to see the feature version of this. the crossroads of being yourself and being with your family. i wish we had more time with Tara to see more of her decision and having to live with it. i would…

jafaar is a great actor. it’s genuinely a shame that they didn’t give him more to work with here. the best parts of this are the slivers of michael’s process. oh what a film this would have been if they focused on him as an artist. i would’ve much rather watched him create than perform. also really wild to me that his inner self was almost completely nonexistent. of course that is his estate’s doing as this whole film was…

it’s really sad to me that a character driven piece about a woman fails to make a real character out of her. we do not see anora’s desires or emotions outside of a punchline or even outside of her husband who she met the week before. in the film, the distinction between anora’s work and personal lives is blurred to the point where it’s nonexistent. i believe this is where the majority of my problems with the film arise. the…